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It is conventional wisdom nowadays to look at today's storage systems the way we look at today's networks: more and more bandwidth to cope with video, multimedia, data warehousing, server clustering, and capacity-hungry applications software. There is an increasing call for product that can effectively handle files and still promote throughput, response time, and resilience. This is the mindset required for new architectures like network-attached storage or storage area networking (SAN).
A product that hits the mark for the architectures of the future is the Magnitude product from XIOtech (Minneapolis, MN). XIOtech Corp., a two-year-old company led by former executives of Clariion, IBM, Tricord Systems, and other storage vendors,...